Education
I facilitate place-based workshops for groups of all ages. Whatever your group dynamic, I want to help create a container for local learning, engagement, and participation.
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Place-based learning
Interdisciplinary learning
Process over product
Creative access
Play and experimentation
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I hold a Master of Education in Education for Sustainability from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University.
I am specialized in facilitation for young people and have trained artists and educators in creative facilitation skills through the University of British Columbia, ArtStarts in Schools, and Sierra Club BC.
I have received additional training in safeguarding, community engaged-practice, trauma-informed facilitation, and informal learning.
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I’ve designed and facilitated creative learning programming for Bertha Earth, the ArtStarts Gallery, the Sierra Club, the Bolton Academy of Spoken Arts, the Vancouver Park Board, Arts & Health: Healthy Aging Through the Arts, Megaphone Magazine, Thrive Youth Development Canada, a long list of schools and community centres, and as a guest at the University of British Columbia.
Workshop Offers
Place-Based Stories
In this workshop, young people will explore the many ways they connect to places that are central to their lives. Through material play, place-based exploration, oral storytelling, and creative writing, participants will begin to make connections about how they belong to their environments and consider the many ways their identities and stories are shaped by how they engage with where they live, study, and play.
Target Audience: School Groups or Families
Memory, Heritage & Place
In this workshop, participants will explore intergenerational connections to place, considering an area’s rich history, cultural tapestry, and heritage. Through art-making, storytelling, and memory collection activities, we will lead the group in unravelling new and old stories about how various people have connected to a specific site—whether a park, neighbourhood, cultural site, or public square.
Target Audience: Community Groups
Co-Creating With Communities
In this workshop, participants will develop dynamic tool-kits to enhance their capacity to engage locally, while exploring meaningful co-creation techniques from an access-first and anti-oppressive perspective. Participants will have the opportunity to consider what strategies they are currently using and how they can better integrate community consultation into their initiatives and processes.
Target Audience: Cultural Workers, Educators & Other Working Professionals
